Achievements and Highlights

IISD Reporting Services fielded teams this past year in New York, Panama City, Geneva, Bonn, Havana, Cairo, Bangkok, Yokohama, Montreal, Nairobi, Milan, Addis Ababa and Kuala Lumpur, publishing the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) from meetings on sustainable development, climate change, biodiversity, chemical management, protection of the ozone and biosafety. During this period, four ENB writers completed their doctoral dissertations including Dagmar Lohan (Czech Republic); Emily Boyd (Sweden); Catherine Ganzleben (Germany); and Karen Alvarenga (Brazil). There are more than 40 consultants working on the Earth Negotiations Bulletin team as writers, editors, translators, digital technicians and logistics co-ordinators. Information on the entire ENB team, with short biographies, can be found here.

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Building on the success of side event coverage at the World Summit on Sustainable Development and at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings, IISD Reporting Services inaugurated a new publishing format at the World Forestry Congress in Quebec in September 2003. The new publication, a "conference daily" called the XII World Forestry Congress Bulletin, reported on the substantive discussions as well as the side events at the Congress and was released simultaneously each morning in English, French and Spanish with four to six pages of photos and text. The publication of the XII World Forestry Congress Bulletin was underwritten by the Forest Products Association of Canada. The Government of Germany has contracted Reporting Services to provide similar services at the International Conference on Renewable Energy in June 2004.

"IISD Reporting Services fielded teams this past year in New York, Panama City, Geneva, Bonn, Havana, Cairo, Bangkok, Yokohama, Montreal, Nairobi, Milan, Addis Ababa and Kuala Lumpur..."

With funding from the International Francophone Organization and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IISD Reporting Services published each issue of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin last year in French, as well as English. Using the advantages of global Internet communications, material is sent to Mongi Gadhoum, Reporting Services' full-time translator in Tunisia, who sends the work back to each UN meeting by e-mail for distribution to French-speaking participants and to our French Earth Negotiations Bulletin e-mail lists.